Like Paul McCartney Hasn't Had a Bad Enough Year...

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from celebitchy:

First Heather Mills, now this. Paul McCartney has been targeted by a radical Muslim group because he has agreed to play a concert in Israel this month. The concert will celebrate Israel’s 60th anniversary as a state, and McCartney is one of the headliners. His participation in the concert has outraged Muslim fundamentalist leaders who have labeled him an “enemy of all Muslims.” They even made a veiled threat on the former Beatle’s life.

Former Beatle Paul McCartney will go ahead with his concert set for later this month in Israel despite being labeled “an enemy of all Muslims” and a possible terror target, the U.K.’s Daily Express reported Sunday.

Muslim fundamentalist speaker Omar Bakri Muhammad decried the singer’s decision to take part in the Jewish state’s 60th anniversary celebration, warning that “if he values his life, Mr. McCartney must not come to Israel,” and that “the sacrifice operatives will be waiting for him,” Ynet News said.

According to the Express, a number of Web sites described McCartney on Saturday as an “infidel” and suggested he was traveling to Israel solely for monetary reasons.

But McCartney defended his decision in an interview with the Israeli media Saturday and refused to bow down to the pressure to back out of the concert set for Sept. 25 in Tel Aviv, the Express said.

“I was approached by different groups and political bodies who asked me not to come here,” McCartney told the Israeli press. “I refused. I do what I think and I have many friends who support Israel.”

Bakri, speaking from his home in Lebanon where he has lived since exiled from Britain, said that McCartney’s decision was making him “more enemies than friends,” the Express said.